[410] in Commercialization & Privatization of the Internet
List Of Possible Commercial Services
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Alan Crosswell)
Fri Mar 22 13:30:59 1991
Date: Fri, 22 Mar 91 13:10:51 GMT-0500
From: alan@curta.cc.columbia.edu (Alan Crosswell)
To: phil@wubios.wustl.edu
Cc: com-priv@psi.com
In-Reply-To: J. Philip Miller's message of Fri, 22 Mar 91 11:25:27 CST <9103221725.AA22218@wubios.wustl.edu>
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From: phil@wubios.wustl.edu (J. Philip Miller)
Subject: Re: List Of Possible Commercial Services
To: alan@curta.cc.columbia.edu (Alan Crosswell)
Date: Fri, 22 Mar 91 11:25:27 CST
In-Reply-To: <9103221612.AA00244@curta.cc.columbia.edu>; from "Alan Crosswell" at Mar 22, 91 11:12 am
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> We will sell IBM VM/CMS time to anyone with money. Is that a
> commercial service? A number of universities subsidize their academic
a lot of people would say yes. E.g. SAS will require you to rebate to them
part of the academic discount. There are some tricky tax issues with respect
to unrelated income. There are some hardware vendors (IBM used to be one) who
would invalidate the academic discount if there was too much of it.
-phil
> operation through outside revenue.
> /a
>
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J. Philip Miller, Professor, Division of Biostatistics, Box 8067
Washington University Medical School, St. Louis MO 63110
phil@wubios.WUstl.edu - Internet (314) 362-3617
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Yes, we have deals with SAS, etc. if the outside user wants to use it.
Most of our outside users are actually non-profits or real educational --
just not part of CU.
/a
